The Maid of London

Chapter 15

    3 Weeks . It had been 3 weeks since Maria stabbed herself . Right now she was on the bed . Apparently she had hit a vital organ . That's why she passed out for that long.

   Now she was finally awake . She slowly opened her eyes and looked around . She was in her own room. As ironic as it seemed , she was waking up in the same fashion and way like Natasha had.

   Eric , Carol and Natasha were there as well , and all 3 of them had genuine concern in her eyes. Maria felt touched , not because of them but because her plan was working .

   The concern and sympathy in their eyes was making her gag and want to vomit or puke . It was sickening .

     Eric said : "Maria , Hey are you feeling better ?"

    Maria nodded, she had in fact woken up prior when no one was around but she was Too tired To stay awake .

     But now she was ready and back in action and full of energy. She looked at everyone or more specifically the trio , and even more specifically Natasha .

    Who had somehow managed to botch up EVERY. SINGLE . ONE of her plans . She ruined them , and she was gonna pay for it with her life , Maria thought inwardly .

     Maria knew as long as Natasha was around, she would NEVER be able to complete her plans . There was one option . One incredibly stupid and incredibly risky option.

    But it was most probably the only way to stop her from completely driving her insane and continuously ruining her plans and motives.

     She had been so close, so close so many times, but Natasha had ruined everything. But not for long.

   She was snapped back to reality and away from her Ferrari of thoughts by none other than Natasha herself who asked : "Maria what happened ? All we heard was you screaming and when we got out you were...."

     She didn't have to complete the sentence .

    Maria relaxed into her comfortable bed spot and made the a fake but most realistic sad sigh face she could make and she said : "After you ,Natasha called Eric, about the bomb in the lounge, and when Eric ran away , i saw a man run out of the house, i had a feeling he was somehow responsible....                                                                                                                                                                           So i followed him and tried to stop him but he was stronger , he took out a knife and then he ..."

       Maria then started to fake cry again . This caused Carol and Eric to immediately dive towards her to comfort her . Carol kissed her forehead and Eric looked guilty .

    Eric said : "I am so sorry Maria , this is all my fault , and you , you shouldn't have ran after him, what  if we lost you , i would have never forgave myself , don't do anything this reckless again , alright . God this is all my fault , i should have tightened the security , and god knows what would have happened if Natasha hadn't found the bomb in time."

     Carol nodded in approval of what Eric said.

   Carol then said : "Eric , we should better get going , Maria needs at least another day of bed rest."

    Eric nodded and they both left . Eric went to his office and Carol went to her room to catch up on her latest Soap Opera.

     Maria took a sigh of relief inwardly , but a cough resonated through the room and Maria saw Natasha standing there .

    To be honest she had forgotten Natasha was here in the first place , Maria looked at Natasha with a questioning look . Maria put on her fakest sad smile and asked : "Natasha is something the matter ?"

    Natasha smiled back and replied : "Oh nothing .... it's just something has been bothering me."

    Maria inwardly rolled her eyes , she wasn't a god damn therapist , she thought .

   Maria asked in her fake sweet sympathetic voice : "What is it ?"

   Natasha replied : "How did you know that the Bomb was in the lounge ?"

  That caused Maria to freeze on spot , she had been thinking of new ways to kill when Natasha said that , and to say she was frozen in shock and slight fear wouldn't be an understatement .

     Maria then quickly thought of a reply but before she could lie about something or even reply , Natasha beat her to it .

   Natasha said : "The only way you could have known was either you heard it from someone , which isn't possible, or unless you were the one who planted it."

     Maria unconsciously opened her mouth like a fish . She was about too decline again when Natasha continued : "Oh and did you know i discovered something in the kitchen, it was poison."

    Maria tried her best to muster up shock but she didn't have too , she was genuinely shocked .All of her dreams could possibly be torn up right now and it will be because of this god damn Maid , Maria thought as she was getting angrier by the second .

    Natasha concluded saying : "So either i am getting delusional and over thinking , or , your trying to kill us all."

    Natasha looked like she was genuinely confused and not able to comprehend this situation. Maria knew she could easily lie and gain Natasha's trust again.

    But at this point she was too tired to act , she knew sooner or later one way or the other Natasha was destined to find out either way . So Screw it !

   All of a sudden this entire situation seemed funny to her , and then she began to laugh like the psychotic maniac she most certainly was, she laughed really loudly almost like a horror movie female cackle .

    Natasha looked at Maria's newly discovered , at least for her, dark and psychotic side with wide eyes . In Natasha's eyes she had gone crazy .

    Before Natasha could even move to warn Eric or even move to reach towards the door , Maria dropped her 'i-am-weak-and-unable-to-move' act and jumped out of the bed , grabbed the knife from the the side table of her bed, which was placed there to cut fruits.

   She then grabbed Natasha's wrist and she slammed her into the wall and brought the knife to her throat , as Natasha stared at Maria wide eyed, fear clear in her expression .

   Natasha was unable to move because of fear and shock , to her Maria had truly been a mad women all along .

    As Natasha stared at Maria face to face it became clear to her that Maria was not what everyone thought she was. 

   Maria on the other hand was grinning psychotically and slowly inching the knife closer  towards her throat , Maria was ready to slit her throat right then and there...........

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    END OF CHAPTER 15

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